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ablaze
CIDE DICTIONARY
ablaze, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + blaze.].
- On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. Milman. [1913 Webster]"All ablaze with crimson and gold." [1913 Webster]
- In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. [1913 Webster]"The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ablaze, predic.adj. & adv.
1 on fire (set it ablaze; the house was ablaze).
2 (often foll. by with) glittering, glowing.
3 (often foll. by with) greatly excited.
1 on fire (set it ablaze; the house was ablaze).
2 (often foll. by with) glittering, glowing.
3 (often foll. by with) greatly excited.
THESAURUS
ablaze
afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, bathed with light, bespangled, blazing, boiling over, breathless, brightened, burning, candent, candescent, candlelit, comburent, conflagrant, cordial, delirious, drunk, enlightened, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, firelit, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushed, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, gaslit, glowing, guttering, hearty, heated, hot, ignescent, ignited, illuminated, impassioned, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, intense, intoxicated, irradiate, irradiated, keen, kindled, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, live, lively, living, luminous, meteoric, moonlit, on fire, passionate, red-hot, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, smoking, smoldering, spangled, sparking, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, steaming, steamy, studded, sunlit, tinseled, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, vigorous, warm, zealousROGET THESAURUS
ablaze
Heat
N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.Light
N light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil, sunbeam, moonbeam, aurora, day, sunshine, light of day, light of heaven, moonlight, starlight, sunlight, daylight, broad daylight, noontide light, noontide, noonday, noonday sun, glow, glimmering, glint, play of light, flood of light, phosphorescence, lambent flame, flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola, spark, scintilla, facula, sparkling, emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration, flame, lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection, gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor, effulgence, refulgence, fulgor, fulgidity, dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency, luminousness, luminosity, lucidity, renitency, nitency, radiance, radiation, irradiation, illumination, actinic rays, actinism, Roentgen-ray, Xray, photography, heliography, photometer, optics, photology, photometry, dioptrics, catoptrics, chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality, reflection, refraction, dispersion, refractivity, shining, luminous, luminiferous, lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous, light, lightsome, bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent, sheen, sheeny, glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian, noonday, tide, cloudless, clear, unclouded, unobscured, gairish, garish, resplendent, transplendent, refulgent, effulgent, fulgid, fulgent, relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent, aglow, bright as silver, light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday, actinic, photogenic, graphic, heliographic, heliophagous, a day for gods to stoop and men to soar, dark with excessive bright.For further exploring for "ablaze" in Webster Dictionary Online